New song: The River

[mdlbear]

Lyrics here; audio when the tune stabilizes a little more. It ended up going a lot deeper than I'd originally expected.

Somewhere in the last couple of weeks I seem to have become a morning person: I was up before 5am yesterday and today. I'm not sure where the time went. Well, OK, I do know, this time.

Comments

The River

[markiv1111.livejournal.com]

This is an utterly spectacular lyric. I am deeply impressed and moved. Note that, in the absence of a better idea (and I am sure you will have a better idea) it can be sung to the tune of "Deportee" (music by Woody Guthrie, although my recollection is that Guthrie set a friend's poem to music, rather than writing himself as his norm; the recording of this I have is by the Byrds). Also note that I wrote a song called "The River" (on my first CD, *Rainbow's Edge*) but yours is way better.

Nate

Re: The River

[mdlbear]

Thanks. I'm usually too close to my songs to tell whether they're any good, but if I start crying when I come up with a line I can be pretty sure it's a keeper.

The actual tune ended up somewhere between "Deportee" and "Windmills". I may be able to get it online sometime this afternoon.

Re: The River

[mdlbear]

Audio's up. See next post.

stuff lurks in our hearts, waaiting to pounce when we're off-guard

[donsimpson.livejournal.com]

I like this one an awful lot. Looking forward to hearing you sing it.

Re: stuff lurks in our hearts, waaiting to pounce when we're off-guard

[mdlbear]

Thanks. Hopefully later today.

[masonronne.livejournal.com]

It will likely sound an awful lot like the train wreck you hear in the clip (but an octave lower in your case).

[mbumby.livejournal.com]

Very nice. I look forward to hearing it.

[mdlbear]

Thanks. I haven't quite decided whether to try to post the music this afternoon, or wait until tomorrow morning.

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[mdlbear]

This comment appears to be spam, though I have no idea what it's supposed to accomplish. Will delete soon unless I get a response to this comment.

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

VERY nice.

I'm tempted to say someone should put together an album with JUST songs called "The River" ;)

[elseydosem.livejournal.com]

1 How many bands can say they didn’t put out a bad album for 22 years or made 12 consecutively good or great albums.

[thnidu.livejournal.com]

Oh my. What they all said. (Except filkerdave's 2nd paragraph.)

[callibr8]

That's lovely. The lyrics themselves have a very graceful flow.

If you want help tunesmithing, or want a flute accompaniment, let me know!

[mdlbear]

Tunesmithing's done -- see my next post upwhen.

Definitely a flute part. I've been hanging around with you too long: I can almost hear it.

[pocketnaomi.livejournal.com]

Beautiful. I hope you're as proud of this as it deserves.

[mdlbear]

Thanks -- I am.

[mdlbear]

Audio's up, in the next post; you appear to have missed it by about 20 minutes. Colleen says to thank you for inspiring it, or as she put it "letting the Muse back into the house."

[pocketnaomi.livejournal.com]

I didn't inspire it, she inspired it. I just introduced you to it. :) I recognized at once in it the parts that were 'mine' and the parts that weren't, and am proud to be associated with something that beautiful.

[mdlbear]

:-) You both did. It started out firmly intended to be about our friendship, and ended up at a whole different level.

[filkferengi]

This is lovely! Will it be on your next album?

[mdlbear]

I had to totally re-jigger the tentative track list, but yes.

[filkferengi]

Yay!